The old-timers here will know very well of my forays into studying left and right-dominant swinging – it came about because I discovered back in 2022 that I was swinging left-dominant, and how it had caused several problems with consistency.

They’ll all remember as well my trip down the right-dominant rabbit hole, looking at Mike Dunaway’s swing model, which is the most powerful swing I’ve ever seen, mechanically.

It was only by pursuing these probable dead-ends that I was able to establish that swinging with a neutral setup is the best way to swing, whether one is left or right-dominant, and especially if one doesn’t favor either arm in swinging.

The reason, having studied it all, is quite simple and very logical – for the most part, we hold the golf club with both hands, we stand on both legs, and for a perfectly balanced golf swing, the neutral setup is optimal, whether we swing right, left-dominant or neutrally.

DJ’s Left-Dominant Swing, Neutral Setup – 2015

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I spend a good deal of time bemoaning how I essentially had the proper model setup back in 2015, and how I left that model in search of… well, whatever I could find.

It was necessary however, because if you think of a talent contest or a film festival, there is one fact that cannot be disputed – you may run across the best entry or performance during the course of said competition, but you can’t evaluate which one is the winner until you’ve seen them all.

In that regard, how on earth would I know the optimal model until I had investigated every possible way of swinging in the Classic Golf Swing method?

Mike Dunaway had a very powerful swing, yes – but he never played professional golf, so his swing method has never been proven to be the best or the optimal way to swing, and I can tell you one thing about his swing that eliminates it from that category – the moving head on the back pivot.

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I spent eons designing a right-dominant swing model with a stable head position on the back pivot and I did get there, but I immediately knew, comparing it to my 2015 neutral model, which one I would do the best with.

And here is the thing about the neutral setup – it works whichever way you want to swing, be it with one arm dominant (left-dominant swingers feel as though they’re pulling the club down to the swing bottom with their left or leading arm, and right-dominant swingers feel like they’re throwing or hammering the club into the ball with their right or trailing arm), or not.

The thing I look for when watching a swing, other than the flaws such as a moving head, flying or rolling foot etc. is balance.  The optimal swing is balanced, and when I look at a swing that is perfectly balanced, I can’t stop watching it.

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The model I briefly used in the spring of 2015 gave me the best, most balanced motion that I can find looking at nearly twenty years’ worth of my swing clips, and it was because the setup was neutral, even though I was swinging left-dominant.

It wasn’t perfect, my swing – there’s the grip issue, the left-dominant issue, but once in action, when I just watch the motion… the choice is clear.

I will only ever recommend a neutral setup for a golfer who doesn’t have physical issues requiring an adjustment.

In a standard swing model for a standard swinger, neutral is the way to setup.

And again, if you want proof, take a look at the greatest major winner ever in golf, who won over 70 Tour events during his career, and who was known as “the Legend in his spare time,” one Jack Nicklaus, and his recommended setup for golfers:

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That, my friends, is a balanced, neutral setup.

What do I always say?

Ben Hogan had the best pivot action with regards to the hips and legs, but Jack Nicklaus had the better setup, and that’s why the MCS Golf Swing standard model is based upon Jack’s setup and Hogan’s pivot.

It worked for the G.O.A.T., and when he went away from this setup from time to time is when he would struggle, until he righted the ship.

So, I don’t have any reason to dispute it.